Improvement in boots and shoes



GEORGE SMITH AND GODFREY SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N.

Letters Pate-nt No. 74,858, dated February 25,l 1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOTS AND SHOES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that we, GEORGE SMITH vand GODFREY SMITH, of the city, county, and State `of New York, have invented a. new and useful Improvement in Ornamenting Boots and Shoes; and we do hereby declare that the following` is a full, clear, and exact description-thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Thislinvention relates to a new and improved mode of'ornamenting boots and shoes, designed as a substitute for and an improvement upon the ordinarymode of producing ornaments by crimping the leather through the medium of dies. v

Crimping by means of dies isattended with some disadvantages. The dies are liable to cut and injure the leather, and the 'prominences formed by the dies become very much depressed during the process of lasting the boot or shoe.

Our invention consists in stitching a piece of leather or other suitable material to the inner side of the upper of the bootror` shoe, at the part where the ornament isto be produced, the stitches being done in such a manner as to form pockets or channels to receive cords, which give the desired prominences tc form tbe ornament. In the accompanying sheet of drawings- Figure 1 represents the outer side of the upper of a boot or shoe, ornamented according toour invention.

Figure 2, a longitudinal section of the same, taken on the line a: z, tig. 1.

Figure 3, a transverse section ot' the same, taken in the line y y, iig. 1.

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vA represents `a portion of the upper of a boot orrshoe, ornamented, in this instance, by a. series of parallel prcminences, a, like those now formed by pressure between dies. To the under side of the upper, A, a. piece of thin leather or other suitable material, B, is stitched. This stitching may be done very rapidly by means of a. sewing-machine, such asis constructed forV sewing leather. The stitching ismade in such a manner as `to form pockets or grooves, through which cords b are drawn, shown in figs. 2 and 3, and by means of these cords the promincnces a are produced. The cords remain permanently in the pocketspr grooves, and hence the promineuccs a cannet become depressed or liattened, as is the case with those produced by dies. After the cords are inserted, the ends of the pockets or grooves may bc closed by stitching, and the prominences or ornamented surface worked over by a proper-shaped tool, in order to give ,u inished appearance to the raised surfaces; or the cord may be placed between the leathers before they are stitched together.

By this simple means the raised surfaces will always remain in bold relief, and the ornament can be made Vmuch cheaper than by the old or present process of forming or crimping by dies.

. This improvement is noticontncd to any particular form or design, but. is applicable to all that may be produced by the crimpingprocess.l

I-Iaving thus described our invention, we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent* ll-he ornunienting of boots and shoes bystitching apiece of leather or other suitable material to the inner side ci' the upper in such a manner as to formpockets `or grooves between the upper and the inner material, to enclose cords of any suitable material, by which promncnces are given the outer or external surface of the upper,'substantially as shown and described.

. GEORGE SMITH,

GODFREY SMITH.

Witnesses:

HENRY SNELL, JOHN D. MeLnAN. 

